THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY by Colin Tudge ( 9780712661737 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY
FIVE MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY

By:

Colin Tudge

Format:

Paperback

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£16.99

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ISBN 10:

0712661735

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9780712661737

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

7 November, 1996

Pages:

416

Description:

Offers an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically.

Synopsis:

This brilliant and ambitious book is an account of the events that made our world the place it is - geologically, climatically and ecologically - and a call for a new way of thinking about history. 'We learn', Tudge writes, 'to think only in desperately trivial twinklings of time...But this contracted view of time is not merely comic. It is dangerous. ' The proper sense of time, he argues, is one that allows us to appreciate the world and see what we are doing to it. If humankind is to survive, we must 'unlearn' most of what made us good at dominating our environment up to now.

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Pimlico

Prizes:

Winner of Conservation Book Prize 1996 Winner of Conservation Book Prize 1995

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